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How the association of learning and political crime
came about is shown by Villari as follows:
“Those were days in which every Italian seemed a
born diplomatist: the merchant, the man of letters, the
captain of adventures, knew how to address and
discourse with kings and emperors, duly observing all
conventional forms, . . . The dispatches of our
ambassadors were among the chief historical and literary
monuments of those times. . . .
“It was then that adventurers, immovable by
threats, prayers or pity, were sure to yield to the verses of
a learned man. Lorenzo de’ Medici went to Naples, and by
force of argument persuaded Ferrante d’Aragona to put
an end to the war and conclude an alliance with him.
Alfonso the Magnanimous, a prisoner of Filippo Maria